Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

But, if you're curious about limerick poems — maybe even considering how to write your own, we're sharing some of our ...

The form of a poem is how we describe the overarching structure or pattern of the poem. Some forms of poetry must stick to very specific rules about length, rhythm and rhyme. Poets enjoy playing ...

Refresh your memory with this short, fun clip ... to learn how rhyme schemes work and to see an example. You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each ...